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In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

Paragraph Frame for Summarizing Fiction

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Simple Fiction Summary

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

Fiction Summaries:  Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Glossary: Basic Fiction Summaries

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Vocabulary Cards: Basic Fiction Summaries

Understanding the big idea of a nonfiction text and being able to write a succinct summary are key fourth grade skills. This lesson focuses on summarizing a nonfiction passage in three to four sentences.

What's the Big Idea? Summarizing Nonfiction Texts

Learn a fun reading strategy and practice writing fiction summaries using a classic text.

Writing a Fiction Summary: The Wind in the Willows

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Glossary: Summarizing with Sequence Words

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Vocabulary Cards: Summarizing with Sequence Words

In this three-part series, a child anticipates a family getaway. Practice summarizing works of fiction, identifying chronology, interpreting pictures, and identifying homophones and homographs through this series of reading and comprehension activities.

My Vacation

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Graphic Organizer: Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

Summary High Five

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: What to Do with Waste

Help students master summarizing using keywords with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Three Sentence Summary

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Summarizing with Sequence Words

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

Illustrating Cause and Effects Reading Log

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

Summarizing with Key Words

Learn the basics of summary and identifying the order of events — then try your hand at it!

Summarizing and Order of Events

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: Planting and Growing

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: A Freedom Fighter

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: We Need Clean Water

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Stop & Jot Sticky Note Sequencing

Introduce your little reader to some classic childhood literature, with Rudyard Kipling's charming story "The Crab That Played with the Sea."

The Crab that Played with the Sea

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Write a Simple Summary

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

Writing a Nonfiction Summary: Sharks

In the second part of this story, a child observes the lead-up to a camping trip.

My Vacation (Part Two)

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

Theme, Cause, and Effect Reading Log

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Rock Painting: Retell a Story

Children will practice using a text to create a timeline in this engaging worksheet.

Timeline: The History of Photography

Introduce young learners to Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and all of the Seven Summits, with this worksheet.

Who Was Junko Tabei?

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